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Sin, the Plague of Plagues
Sin, the plague of plagues, or, Sinful sin the worst of evils a treatise of sins trial and arraignment, wherein sin is accused for being, proved to be, and condemned for being exceeding sinful : and that 1. as against God, his nature, attributes, works, will, law, image, people, glory and existence, 2. as against man, his good and welfare of body and soul, in this life, and that to come : with the use and improvement to be made of this doctrine, that men may not be damned, but saved, &c. : being the substance of many sermons preached many years ago in Southwark / by Ralph Venning ...Sin, the plague of plagues, or, Sinful sin the worst of evils a treatise of sins tryal and arraignment, wherein sin is accused for being, proved to be, and condemned for being exceeding sinful : and that 1. as against God, his nature, attributes, works, will, law, image, people, glory and existence, 2. as against man, his good and welfare of body and soul, in this life, and that to come : with the use and improvement to be made of this doctrine, that men may not be damned, but saved, &c. : being the substance of many sermons preached many years ago in Southwark / by Ralph Venning ...
London: printed for John Hancock, 1669
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SIN, THE PLAGUE of PLAGUES; OR Sinful Sin the worst of Evils. › 2 In a Moral sense, for
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1 Sin hath degraded man by defiling him, and tantum non almost unmann'd him; for as our Text speaks of sin as a man, so the holy Scripture speaks of man as if he were sin, and every man were a man of sin (made up of sin) whither we consider the outer or inner man: Man was a very noble thing, made little lower then the Angels, Psal. 8. But alas by sin he is made almost as low as Devils: Man was once a companion for God himself, but sin hath separated between God and him, sin hath robbed man of his primitive excellency; of a Lord he is become a servant, yea a slave to creatures, to Devils, and lusts of all sorts. Now this debasement came by defilement, which defilement cleaves
1 1To his body; for the flesh is filthy, 2 Cor. 7.1. and the body needs sanctifying and cleansing, 1 Thes 5.23. the body is a body of sin, the members are servants to uncleanness, and to iniquity, Rom. 6.19. Take him from head to foot, from the Crown of that to the sole of this, there's no whole (because not holy) part in him, but all filthy and full of putrefactions and sores: If we dissect and anatomize man, we shall find this but too true, for not to name every sin that cleaves to the whole or every part, but in a more general way, 'tis thus said of sinful men, their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness, with their tongues they use deceit, the poison of Asps is ⟨p. 31⟩under their lips, their throat is an open Sepulchre, Rom. •, 13, 14. eyes full of adultery, 2 Pet. 2.14. the eye-lids haughty,